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Some CE Ads Just Dont Add Up

The following is offered with apologies to MGM’s “That’s Entertainment”: When one tries To offer them some great buys And you say It’s just...

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Best Buy Buoys Bands In Promo

Best Buy is sponsoring the broadcast premier of U2’s Elevation Tour performance in Boston, airing Nov. 23 on VH-1, and will have a two-week...

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Q3 A Mixed Bag For CE Leaders

The challenging retail environment took a toll on third quarter results for Top Five CE merchants RadioShack and Sears, while online upstart Amazon.com posted...

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Best Buy, Circuit City Tout Digital

In advance of the all-important holiday selling season, Best Buy and Circuit City are touting the benefits of digital technologies through in-store and road...

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Brand Source Targets Rental Biz

To better tailor its programs to the needs of member dealers serving the rent to own (RTO) market, the Brand Source/Associated Volume Buyers buying...

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800.com Expands Site, Reach

Amid the e-commerce wreckage of the post-Internet bubble business cycle, leading CE specialty e-tailer 800.com continues to expand its operations. Among the pure-play’s latest...

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Buy.com Revamps Business

Back from the brink of insolvency, Internet superstore buy.com has reinvented itself in anticipation of the holiday selling season by redesigning its Web site,...

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Warranty Biz Sees Silver Lining

Looking past the horrors of Sept. 11, which brushed the industry in a personal way, extended service plan executives say they will be able...

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Target To Tap Into Amazon.com

Target said it will begin selling consumer electronics and other product categories through Amazon.com later this fall. Thousands of items including CE, apparel, jewelry...

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Amazon Resumes Selling Used PCs

Amazon.com said its computer store will begin selling refurbished and surplus computers provided by TechSmart, which reconditions and resells leading brand name desktop and...

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CompUSA Opens Two More Cozones

CompUSA has opened its second and third Cozone stores in Arlington and Reston, Va. The openings follow the debut of the small format concept...

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RDA Holds First Buying Show

Retail Dealers of America (RDA), the former Key Southwest chapter that broke away from Brand Source/AVB in April, held its first national convention here...

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Warrantech In Turnaround

What a difference a couple of years can make. It wasn’t too long ago that Warrantech Corp., the extended service contract provider, found itself...

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In The Belly Of The Beast

Like a modern day David to Bentonville’s Goliath, Frank Wildhaber, owner of 27-year-old L & W Appliance here, decided to open his newest store...

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